What to Do, How to Do it

Food Storage Tips and Techniques Along With Suggestions for Useful Tools and Needed Equipment

Wondering what to do with an overabundance of fresh apples? Would you like to grind your own wheat to produce your own flour so you can bake your own bread, but aren't sure where or how to start? Have you been looking at some aspect of "food storage" as a means of saving your family money, but are wondering how much it might cost to start doing that saving?

Then you might want to take a look at one or more of the following articles. It is the hope of Store-It Foods that they might serve to address some of your concerns, and help to answer some of these or related questions.

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Bread MakingFill your home with the delicious aroma of freshly baked bread. You provide the flour or the grain and Store-It Foods can assist you in finding just the right tools that can help to make that a reality.

Dehydrating FruitCanning or freezing fruit is not the only way to preserve it. Dehydrating or drying it can be an acceptable and tasty alternative.

Double Duty Canning JarsBall is now marketing plastic storage caps that are designed to be used on either wide mouth or regular mouth glass canning jars. Sold in sets of eight, these lids allow those preserving jars to be adapted to refrigerator storage.

Harvest HelpsFor the serious gardener Store-It Foods features a number of amazingly simple, but highly effective tools that help to speed the process of readying garden produce for canning, freezing, dehydrating, or using fresh. Even if you're not a gardener, but like to take advantage of farmers' markets, in-season specials, or bulk purchasing of fresh fruits and vegetables, these inexpensive aids could certainly make life easier.

Home Canning - How to StartHome Canning - It's a way of saving money in tough times, it's a method of making use of excess produce that might otherwise go to waste, and it's a means of controlling and knowing all of the ingredients that are going to end up in those canning jars.

Jerky MakingDo-it-Yourself Jerky really can be a Do-it-Yourself treat, and doing it at home will save you money. Produce it for lunches, for back pack and camping trips, for food storage, or simply as an everyday treat. It's not as difficult as you might think, especially if you have the right tools at hand.

Homemade potato chips - fresh, nutritious and delicioulsy crisp. When you cannot or prefer not to rely on store bought versions of this popular snack food, you can, indeed, do-it-yourself at home.

Using Home Canned TomatoesTomatoes are a popular food to can. They are easy to grow and relatively easy to preserve. But what do you do with them after what may have been a bounteous harvest when faced with jar after jar after jar of beautiful, richly red, delicious home canned tomatoes?

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Can it, freeze it, freeze dry it, dehydrate it, use it fresh, or purchase already prepared foods for emergencies. At Store-It foods it is our desire to see to it that each food storage choice is a possibility for you.

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